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blacklake terror skirmish is missing
hevak7
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Short version:
BLACKLAKE TERROR SKIRMISH DOES NOT SHOW UP IN THE QUEUE LIST ANYMORE. IT IS GONE, MISSING, COMPLETLEY UNABLE TO BE TRIED TO JOIN EVEN IF ONE WANTED TO.
Hopefully this gets some attention now.
Long version:
It may seem like a small issue that clearly doesn't need to be acknowledged since it has been reported in both Maze engine and Queue bug threads and it hasn't even been added to the continually updated list in the OP of one of those threads or acknowledged in any way, and still hasn't been fixed. I mean it should be an easy fix to make this queue show up in the list like all the others have right. And while yes it may not big the biggest problem right now, it is still an important issue.
Here's why. As a brand new player I create a character and within my first hour or so of playing, after running around the city doing what amounts to an extended tutuorial, I end up in my first main adventure zone of Neverwinter. So I proceed to talk to the npc's right there as you zone in, getting a few quests and stuff, one of them offers me this quest to join your queue system and one of your skirmishes. This is an integral part of your game and this is an introduction quest to this part of the game. So I get this quest, and the npc even offers to have me join the queue, but nothing happens. Well just hit the K key to bring up the queue menu and look under skirmishes, oh wait its not there.
So now I have a quest that must be completed between levels 5-13 only, for content that can only be played while level 5-13. So maybe some players like to play things like this and try all content there is no matter the level, or how early. I know some wont understand this or think this is one of those who cares about this type of situations, but its not really.
My first introduction, in my first hour or so of playing this game, leads to the first impression that this game gives out quests for content that doesn't exist and can not be completed ever. Yes I know the quest can be dropped, but that is missing the point. You have now left a first impression with a new customer, one that is poor, which will inevitably lead to them remembering this throughout the game as they try it whenever anything else goes wrong. Next time the encounter a problem they will think, well one of the first quests I got in this game wasn't even able to be done cause content didn't exist.
This is my experience with Neverwinter. And I am familiar with the Cryptic way of things, as I came over from STO, even after hearing very mixed opinions on this game which honestly tended more towards the negative. I can see why the opinions tended to be that way.
Here are some easy reproduction steps. there are 2 ways you could do this.
First
1.) Log into any character between level 5-13
2.) Hit K to bring up the queue window.
3.) Click on skirmishes in the Queue window. Notice there is no Blacklake terror skirmish
Second.
1.) Start any new character, or be a new player completely and start your first character
2.) Do the tutorial, and run around the city doing all that stuff until directed towards your first main adventure zone, Blacklake District.
3.) Upon zoning into Blacklake District, and being level 5-13, talk to Penny the Apprentice and get the quest "The Lurking in Blacklake", if you want you can also listen to her explanation on the queue and skirmish system.
4.)Either tell Penny the apprentice you want to queue for Blacklake Terror skirmish (Nothing whatsoever happens when you select this), or Hit the K key to open the queue window. Click on skirmishes and notice THERE IS NO BLACKLAKE TERROR SKIRMISH!.
I am quite disappointed with my initial experience, not so much that there are bugs, but the fact that it has been mentioned many times and seemingly ignored. The op in the maze engine bug thread has been updated many times, this has been reported in that thread many times. I tagged the dev that started the thread with one message in that thread, I left notice on the activity portion of his page, I posted in the patch announcement for the first patch afterwards, I posted in the newer Queue system issue thread, and still it does not even appear to be acknowledged in any way. This is the most troubling part, because every thing that has to do with High level stuff, or especially something they want paid for has been acknowledged, or even already fixed. Apparently this game doesn't need or care about New players that may come.
Even with the issues cryptic seems to have, and the issues I have seen from years on STO, this is just ridiculous, honestly. I don't remember getting any mission in STO that had no content with it and couldn't be completed. There have certainly been bugs that made some missions tougher or problematic. But over there is a wonderful person that goes by the name of LaughingTrendy, who the Neverwinter Team should talk to and learn from. Because she is one of the best CM I've ever seen. Trendy will pass messages along, and help acknowledge the fact that issues will be looked into, here the person responsible doesn't seem to be able to even do that.
This seems to be the only queue that didn't get added back in, I saw no mention of it being removed, and the quest giver still gives it out. It is probably an easy bug to fix, since its proably akin to someone didn't turn the switch on, maybe its not that easy, but it cant be harder then some one the other ones that have been fixed, or even just acknowledged.
Sad part is Neverwinter seems like a pretty decent and sometimes fun game, but with all the negative opinions, posts and other stuff around about it, having my first experience ever in this game being this, it's a pretty bad start. So maybe you care about this issue or not, maybe i'll play some or not, maybe ill check back in a month and see if this was fixed, or not. And I wont even get into the first mount quest for new players/characters that can get bugged and not complete too, at least that appears to have a work around.
So yes while this may seem like a small issue to many people, it can have a big impact on the wellbeing of this game.
BLACKLAKE TERROR SKIRMISH DOES NOT SHOW UP IN THE QUEUE LIST ANYMORE. IT IS GONE, MISSING, COMPLETLEY UNABLE TO BE TRIED TO JOIN EVEN IF ONE WANTED TO.
Hopefully this gets some attention now.
Long version:
It may seem like a small issue that clearly doesn't need to be acknowledged since it has been reported in both Maze engine and Queue bug threads and it hasn't even been added to the continually updated list in the OP of one of those threads or acknowledged in any way, and still hasn't been fixed. I mean it should be an easy fix to make this queue show up in the list like all the others have right. And while yes it may not big the biggest problem right now, it is still an important issue.
Here's why. As a brand new player I create a character and within my first hour or so of playing, after running around the city doing what amounts to an extended tutuorial, I end up in my first main adventure zone of Neverwinter. So I proceed to talk to the npc's right there as you zone in, getting a few quests and stuff, one of them offers me this quest to join your queue system and one of your skirmishes. This is an integral part of your game and this is an introduction quest to this part of the game. So I get this quest, and the npc even offers to have me join the queue, but nothing happens. Well just hit the K key to bring up the queue menu and look under skirmishes, oh wait its not there.
So now I have a quest that must be completed between levels 5-13 only, for content that can only be played while level 5-13. So maybe some players like to play things like this and try all content there is no matter the level, or how early. I know some wont understand this or think this is one of those who cares about this type of situations, but its not really.
My first introduction, in my first hour or so of playing this game, leads to the first impression that this game gives out quests for content that doesn't exist and can not be completed ever. Yes I know the quest can be dropped, but that is missing the point. You have now left a first impression with a new customer, one that is poor, which will inevitably lead to them remembering this throughout the game as they try it whenever anything else goes wrong. Next time the encounter a problem they will think, well one of the first quests I got in this game wasn't even able to be done cause content didn't exist.
This is my experience with Neverwinter. And I am familiar with the Cryptic way of things, as I came over from STO, even after hearing very mixed opinions on this game which honestly tended more towards the negative. I can see why the opinions tended to be that way.
Here are some easy reproduction steps. there are 2 ways you could do this.
First
1.) Log into any character between level 5-13
2.) Hit K to bring up the queue window.
3.) Click on skirmishes in the Queue window. Notice there is no Blacklake terror skirmish
Second.
1.) Start any new character, or be a new player completely and start your first character
2.) Do the tutorial, and run around the city doing all that stuff until directed towards your first main adventure zone, Blacklake District.
3.) Upon zoning into Blacklake District, and being level 5-13, talk to Penny the Apprentice and get the quest "The Lurking in Blacklake", if you want you can also listen to her explanation on the queue and skirmish system.
4.)Either tell Penny the apprentice you want to queue for Blacklake Terror skirmish (Nothing whatsoever happens when you select this), or Hit the K key to open the queue window. Click on skirmishes and notice THERE IS NO BLACKLAKE TERROR SKIRMISH!.
I am quite disappointed with my initial experience, not so much that there are bugs, but the fact that it has been mentioned many times and seemingly ignored. The op in the maze engine bug thread has been updated many times, this has been reported in that thread many times. I tagged the dev that started the thread with one message in that thread, I left notice on the activity portion of his page, I posted in the patch announcement for the first patch afterwards, I posted in the newer Queue system issue thread, and still it does not even appear to be acknowledged in any way. This is the most troubling part, because every thing that has to do with High level stuff, or especially something they want paid for has been acknowledged, or even already fixed. Apparently this game doesn't need or care about New players that may come.
Even with the issues cryptic seems to have, and the issues I have seen from years on STO, this is just ridiculous, honestly. I don't remember getting any mission in STO that had no content with it and couldn't be completed. There have certainly been bugs that made some missions tougher or problematic. But over there is a wonderful person that goes by the name of LaughingTrendy, who the Neverwinter Team should talk to and learn from. Because she is one of the best CM I've ever seen. Trendy will pass messages along, and help acknowledge the fact that issues will be looked into, here the person responsible doesn't seem to be able to even do that.
This seems to be the only queue that didn't get added back in, I saw no mention of it being removed, and the quest giver still gives it out. It is probably an easy bug to fix, since its proably akin to someone didn't turn the switch on, maybe its not that easy, but it cant be harder then some one the other ones that have been fixed, or even just acknowledged.
Sad part is Neverwinter seems like a pretty decent and sometimes fun game, but with all the negative opinions, posts and other stuff around about it, having my first experience ever in this game being this, it's a pretty bad start. So maybe you care about this issue or not, maybe i'll play some or not, maybe ill check back in a month and see if this was fixed, or not. And I wont even get into the first mount quest for new players/characters that can get bugged and not complete too, at least that appears to have a work around.
So yes while this may seem like a small issue to many people, it can have a big impact on the wellbeing of this game.
Post edited by zebular on
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I received a report of this issue last week, and the team will be working on a fix for it early in the week.
The goal for us will be to get this - as well as a number of fixes to improve the queue system - out to you with the next update.
Thank you for your understanding and patience.
> Hey there.
> I received a report of this issue last week, and the team will be working on a fix for it early in the week.
> The goal for us will be to get this - as well as a number of fixes to improve the queue system - out to you with the next update.
>
> Thank you for your understanding and patience.
So this was posted a month ago and it's still missing, is it going to be fixed soon ?
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Blacklake Terror is only one of three skirmishes that do happen to get leveled past quite easy.
The other two being Defend the Village in Rothe Valley and Aberrant Assault in Whispering Caverns.
We also have three dungeons they removed to be fixed but have not heard a word since their removal.
They are Lair of the Mad Dragon in Helm's Hold; Throne of Idris in Ebon Downs; and the Dread Vault in Whispering Caverns.
Without these skirmishes and dungeons, their story arcs can never be completed.
So the TLDR is that Skirmishes act like they have since the beginning of the game. Normal Dungeons were removed and later readded by a different team.
I never got any notification for a skirmish here. Didn't get her mail until level 25 and have NO WAY of initiating this. Are the devs from Destiny working on this?